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SWEAT PAD FOR HORSE DOLLARS.

No. 349,451. Patented Sept..21, 1886.

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SWEAT-PAD FOR HORSE-COLLARS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 349,451, dated September 21, 18.86.

Application filed January 20, 1886.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, JAMES H. PHILPOTT, of Rising City, in the county of Butler and State Improvement in Sweat-Pads for Horse-Collars, of which the followingis afull, clear, and exact description.

This invention consists in a sweat-pad applicable to team -horse collars of novel construction, substantially as hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims, the same including a leather or thin flexible top pad or piece with thicker stuffed side cloth sweat-pads attached. This'construction provides for the hames lying close to the horses neck, which cases the draft, and'the pad, as. an entirety, being thin on top, it takes but little from the size ofthe collar, and can thus nary collar made to fit the horse. This is not attainable by those stuffed cloth sweat-pads for horse-collars which have a like fullness throughout, and extend clear over the top of the latter.

the animals neck, that not only makes them heavy and awkward and heating on top of the l neck, galling the horse, but necessitates the letting out of the top hame-strap so wide that it throws the hame too far out on the point of.

I the shoulder.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 represents aview in perspective of my improved sweat-pad, and Fig. 2 a transverse sectiouthrongh one side of the same, showing the pad as applied to a horse-collar, and its arrangement in connection with the hame.

Viewed as an entirety, the improved sweatpad embraces opposite stuffed side sweat-pads, A A, which I make of cloth and stuff with These cloth and stuffed sweat-pads, which have no connection one with the other at their lower ends, are united at their upper ends, as by sewing, riveting, or otherwise, to the lower ends of a thin arched upper collar-pad or connecting-piece, 13, made of leather or-other Serial No. 189,772. (No model.)

suitable material, but not stuffed to form a sweat-pad, and so that it can readily be applied to an ordinary and well-fitting horsecollar without materially affecting the size of The connecting-piece B is or may be turned up at its front edge for the convenient attachment thereto of a strap, presently further referred to, and to fit against the collar, while the rear edge of said connectingpiece may be slightly curved upward for convenience in connecting thereto the buckle to engage with said strap, as also further hereinafter described.

This improved sweat-pad may be attached to the horses collar 0 on top by a strap, b, and buckle c, or there may be more than one such strap and buckle, if desired. It may be fastened below by a strap, d, attached to each sweat-pad A, and provided at or near its free end with a small cleat, a, said lower straps, d, being turned back over the rim of the collar and the hames Ddrawn over the straps, when the cleats 6 will prevent the straps from drawing through. No claim is however made to such bottom fastenings, and any other suitable fastenings may be used.

The whole device constitutes a sweat-pad attachment for horse-collars.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent-- 1. A sweat'pad attachment for horse-collars, consisting of the upper arched thin collar-pad, B, adapted to receive the horse-collar over it, and the stuffed cloth sweat-pads A A, united at their upper ends to the lower ends of the arched collar-pad B, and having no connection one with the other at their lower ends, substantially as specified.

2. The combination of the leather collar-pad B, the stuffed cloth sweat-pads A A, united at their tops to the pad 13, and one or more straps and buckles, b 0, adapted to attach the whole to the collar at the top, essentially as described.

JAMES H. PHILPOTT. 

